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Revenue Generation: Higher Education Institutions

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Stable revenue sources in higher education have been a challenging and controversial issue for institutions for a long time (Alstete 2014; Kerr 1963; Veblen 1918). There is dissonance from ancient times, when students funded tablet writers or teachers directly for education, to the University of Bologna in the Middle Ages, to early American colleges in the eighteenth century, and to the present day (Lucas 2006; Rudolph 1990; Thelin 2004; Veysey 1965). Financial revenue receded and sprang somewhat unsteadily from tuition, philanthropy, and governments. This is a matter of differing societal perspectives that have affected institutional philosophies, policies, and practices (Brubacher 1965). In recent decades, higher education providers in Europe and globally have experienced an unprecedented expansion resulting in significant financial and political challenges (Teixeira and Koryakina 2016). Concurrently there has been a shift in attitudes and expectations that has...

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Alstete, J.W. (2017). Revenue Generation: Higher Education Institutions. In: Shin, J., Teixeira, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_536-1

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